Colorado’s Home of Looptail is a small firm that not solely celebrates outdated bicycles however is devoted to maintaining you driving them. Their first merchandise have been licensed reproductions of basic tires, just like the Panaracer-made Snake Stomach and Ritchey Megabite Z-Max (coming Summer season of ’25). Properly, they only launched a cool lil’ doodad that they’re calling These Issues. They seem like a really well-thought-out, easy in-line-cable adjuster.
These Issues are created to unravel issues, and are the right addition to some old-timey builds, or a drop bar conversion with cantis. Home of Looptail says that they take away the slop and enhance shift really feel when positioned behind classic thumbies or bar finish shifters. I don’t learn about you, however I like the place their head is at.
Again within the 80’s, and 90’s, there have been just a few bike element manufacturers, like WTB, that made these. However these days availability of these older elements isn’t so nice. There are trendy options, however Home of Looptail thinks they appear “dumb on a Prewar Klunk, an ’85 Commando, or a ’91 Jellybean”. I might are likely to agree.
All that being stated, Home of Looptail has gone forward and produced the easy and useful These Issues. They’re stealthy, and would possibly even seem like they belong on the classic bike construct you’ve received happening.
A cool lil’ characteristic of These Issues is the included stable double-male connection. This enables the person the choice of butting the adjuster immediately towards a shifter, brake lever, or cable cease.
These Issues provide a “full 1/2 of cable adjustment”, are offered in pairs, and are appropriate for both shift or brake. They retail for $35 and are available black or silver. These Issues are in inventory now and able to ship.